Rachel Swift, one of my characters from The House at Zaronza appears on Miriam Drori’s blog today, in her Letters from Elsewhere series, with a letter to the main character in the book, Maria Orsini, whom she never met.
Today, you’re invited to meet Rachel Swift, who tops and tails The House at Zaronza by Vanessa Couchman, another great Crooked Cat read. Here is her letter to Maria Orsini, whom she never met but who had a great influence on the lives of Rachel’s family.
Dear Maria,
You died long before I was born and I really wish I had had the chance to meet you.
I came to Corsica wanting to find out more about my ancestors. This was my first visit and, as soon as the plane touched down, I had a sense of coming home. Somehow, the rugged but magnificent landscape and the perched villages seemed familiar. And that scent of aromatic herbs from the mountain scrub they call the maquis was almost intoxicating.
My search led me to the beautiful village of Zaronza, where I stayed in the house you once lived in. I discovered that…
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